I want to start by saying that this post isn’t meant to bash anyone’s beliefs. I’m genuinely and deeply concerned about the direction our future is headed, and I felt it was important to share my thoughts.
Thank you to anyone who takes the time to read and share this. I also welcome any feedback or criticism—just please, let’s keep it respectful, and ideally, educational and professional.
At the end of the day, we’re all humans sharing this planet, and everyone faces their own struggles and hardships. It’s up to us to shape a future that supports and protects everyone.
Salem witch trials were almost a century before the revolution, feels like a little bit of a stretch to lump them into other events that have posed a threat to american democracy since it didn’t even exist yet.
It certainly makes a good point about how certain parts of America have always been primed to go off the deep end since the very beginning, but I think that’s part of a separate but closely related discussion